The University of Georgia will open the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in Athens, Ga., in January 2006. The 140,000-sf facility will house administrative offices for the College of Public Health, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, Health Communications group, and the Bioimaging Resource Center. The top two floors will accommodate laboratory-based research groups including the Tropical and Emerging Global Disease group and studies in developmental biology.
Designed for open, interdisciplinary biomedical research, the facility will utilize recycled building materials and indigenous granite, light dimming sensors, and a water system that recovers water from air-conditioning condensation and storm runoff to be used in non-drinking water such as flushing toilets.
